14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has just announced that James Forshaw, a security vulnerability researcher with Context Information Security, is the lucky winner for a $100,000 (€73,700) award as part of the Windows 8.1 bounty program.
While Forshaw also won some money during the IE11 Preview Bug Bounty campaign, he now managed to find a critical security flaw in the upcoming Windows 8.1 operating system which, once patched, will make the whole platform even more secure.
“Coincidentally, one of our brilliant engineers at Microsoft, Thomas Garnier, had also found a variant of this class of attack technique. Microsoft engineers like Thomas are constantly evaluating ways to improve security, but James’ submission was of such high quality and outlined some other variants such that we wanted to award him the full $100,000 bounty,” Microsoft explained.
Windows 8.1 is set to be unveiled next week and Windows 8 users will be allowed to download it free from the Store just like any other app update.